好一个钉齿铭誓啊
“That was not the vow you made!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Is this how one of the Five Ink-making Grandmasters should act?”
好一个 钉齿铭誓 啊
“That was not the vow you made!”
祯娘
“Zhen.”
“Your grand vows are nothing but shameless lies.”
Pledges involving physical bodily metaphors (like engraving into bone or teeth) denote the highest moral weight; exposing such pledges as fraud brings ultimate loss of face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what a fine... / quite the...
A classical rhetorical device frequently used sarcastically to ridicule someone's supposed virtue or high reputation.
Accentuates the exclamation, intensifying the biting sarcasm and moral indignation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“after he made that Teeth-etched Oath years ago, he has never made ink again.”
“You made a vow that you wouldn't make ink.”
“Remember the soldier's oath.”
“I must make this oath with morality.”
“I hereby swear”
“to establish this blood pact.”